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NPR First Listen Premieres New Lost In The Trees Record

Today, March 12th, NPR's First Listen Series will premiere the highly anticipated new LOST IN THE TREES album A Church That Fits Our Needs. The album will be in stores March 20th via Anti- Records.

This is the follow up to the North Carolina ensembles 2010 album All Alone In An Empty House which the Huffington Post called "spellbinding in its musical ambition, touching in its intimacy, and often overwhelming in its emotional honesty" and The LA Times described as "a collection of classically enhanced pop that's as fit for a chamber hall as it is a rock club."

The band's newest, A Church That Fits Our Needs, declared a "breakthrough album" by Billboard Magazine, is an ambitious work inspired by loss and transformation. In the summer of 2009, the group's writer, composer and singer, Ari Picker, lost his artist mother when she took her own life. Picker has transformed the event into an evocative and moving musical celebration. Far from being a somber affair, the classically trained composer has utilized rhythm as its own emotional language, never losing the propulsive vitality of great rock and roll.

LOST IN THE TREES kicked off their international touring with a performance at the Jeff Mangum curated All Tomorrow's Parties UK on March 11th, followed by their March 12th NPR First Listen honorary celebration tonight in London, a run of high-profile shows at South By Southwest this week in Austin, Texas and then a full North American tour with Fleet Foxes members Christian Wargo's and Casey Wescott's project Poor Moon (Sub Pop) in tow.